Angela Holland, ManchesterIt is time to re-nationalise British Rail. If it is considered a potentially profitable service, shouldn’t the country have the benefit?
Gary Ellam, StaffordRail priority should be to benefit the country and the people.
Debra Norgate, DewsburyBring back British Rail.
Stephen East, RyeOur rail network should never have been privatised. Our service is a joke and a disgrace.
Pat Cunningham, LiverpoolGreat grandfather, grandfather, uncle and father all worked for the railways. Dad said if service was privatised we would regret it – how true!
Joan Edbury, BaildonWe need a transport system that deals with traffic congestion and carbon emissions on the roads. The railways could do this.
Anne Byrne, PembrokeThen improve the rail connections in South Pembrokeshire.
Sheila Henderson-Squara, Whitley BayDisgusting way of selling tickets. Must be illegal, surely.
Jeffrey Moore, LeedsProfit is king at the moment. Mammon triumphs again.
Tracey AllenThey should never have been de-nationalised. It was nationalised because it didn’t work as a mish-mash of companies.
Morag Cumming, NottinghamWe need an efficient and cost-effective railway network to get Britain working again. It must not be run solely for profit, but for everyone who needs to use the railway.
Veronica Little, LeedsIt’s about time.
Jonathan Coope, NottinghamIt should never have been privatised. Our privatised railways are the best advert I can think of for nationalising the railways.
Julie Armstrong, GatesheadTell the price-hiking profiteers to get on their bikes.
John Neville, BrightonGive it back.
Karl Walker, BirminghamTransport needs to become not-for-profit.
Pete Sinclair, GreenwichPublic transport should not be run for profit. Meet passengers’ needs, not shareholders’ greed.
Kevin Higgins , ElyWe need a coordinated rail system and cheaper fares.
Mary Rowntree, DurhamTrain services should be in our own hands and any profits could be ploughed back in for improvements and maintenance, not given to foreign countries.
Dominic Williams, Ashford, KentSNCF do it right, BAHN do it right. It’s time to join them and end this mockery of free market economics supported by public subsidy.
Paul Miles, Crawley£34.90 every day and still no seat – how can that be right?
Francis Kelly, WallsendTaxpayers should not be subsidising the profit gained by the City of London.
Mauro Bonventre, DidcotBR all the way for me, just because it should be a national institution for the people of Britain and not for profit even though I am a pro business person.
Rod Atkin, StroodGreat Eastern did very well when the franchisee cleared off. A lesson must be learned.
Amanda Nicoll, TadcasterOh the irony. Britain invented railways but we can no longer run them efficiently and cost-effectively.
James Hurst, Newcastle-upon-TyneEast Coast line making a profit for the country and yet they want to privatise it – where is the common sense in that?
Jack Wright, GlasgowLet’s end the profiteering.
Andrea Stow, CleckheatonIt’s a better service when profit goes back into the service not shareholders’ pockets.
Peter McQueen, CreweBring it back into public ownership.
John Jenkins, YorkEnd the privatisation disaster.